Centuries before the Inca emerged, Amazonian parrots were carried alive across the Andes and raised in captivity on Peru's coast for their vibrant feathers.

Woodpeckers aren’t trying to be musicians, but they are drummers. You may have heard the familiar drumming of a woodpecker before. They are omnivorous consumers of insects, tree sap and nectar, along ...

Birdwatchers have a rare chance to witness thousands of the towering birds gather in wetlands and fields of the Platte River Valley.

The hyper-arid coastal desert of Peru is an unlikely place to find the electric-blue and brilliant scarlet feathers of tropical rainforest parrots. Yet, during a 2005 excavation at the religious ...

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the Amazon.

What makes hundreds of people pull on boots before dawn and head into foggy winter woods for a glimpse of a bird smaller than a hand? At Great Falls Park in Northern Virginia, that question has had a ...

While spring hasn't officially begun – that starts with the vernal equinox on March 20 – so far as summer visitor birds go, it was already underway before February ended, one ornithologist says.

Geographically, the United States is a massive country, the third largest in the world. Along with size comes a wide ...

The changes in the natural world, associated with the advance of spring, are triggered by an increase in average temperatures ...

Many mammals have fur the color of brown and black. Why don't they have more exotic colors, like purple and neon pink?

The red-flanked bluetail has appeared at a park near the Potomac River, marking only the second time the species has been ...

Sarah Dalrymple is the first female reserve manager of Coquet Island off the Northumberland coast and is hoping to inspire other young women.